Gianluigi Buffon has made the most career appearances by an Italian in Europe's top five leagues, with 674 appearances in Serie A and Ligue 1.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Gianluigi Buffon G. Buffon	674	60,066	672	0	0.00	0	0	0
2	Paolo Maldini P. Maldini	647	56,495	640	29	0.04			0
3	Francesco Totti F. Totti	618	47,054	540	250	0.40	46	296	71
4	Gianluca Pagliuca G. Pagliuca	592	53,150	592	0	0.00			0
5	Dino Zoff D. Zoff	570	51,274	570	0	0.00			0
6	Pietro Vierchowod P. Vierchowod	562	49,531	557	38	0.07			0
7	Fabio Quagliarella F. Quagliarella	556	38,059	432	182	0.33	34	216	32
8	Roberto Mancini R. Mancini	545	44,178	500	156	0.29			22
9	Silvio Piola S. Piola	537	48,070	537	274	0.51			24
10	Enrico Albertosi E. Albertosi	532	47,400	531	0	0.00			0
11	Gianni Rivera G. Rivera	526	46,999	525	129	0.25			27
12	Giuseppe Bergomi G. Bergomi	519	45,012	510	23	0.04			0
13	Fabio Cannavaro F. Cannavaro	515	44,908	511	14	0.03			0
14	Alberto Gilardino A. Gilardino	514	36,821	406	188	0.37	13	201	16
15	Amedeo Carboni A. Carboni	512	41,886	470	6	0.01			0
16	Andrea Consigli A. Consigli	510	45,538	510	0	0.00	0	0	0
17	Antonio Candreva A. Candreva	502	36,702	424	85	0.17	79	164	22
18	Emiliano Moretti E. Moretti	502	41,109	459	11	0.02	8	19	0
19	Ciro Ferrara C. Ferrara	499	41,455	469	27	0.05			0
20	Giovanni Galli G. Galli	496	44,060	489	0	0.00			0
21	Andrea Pirlo A. Pirlo	493	37,349	414	58	0.12	31	89	14
22	Tarcisio Burgnich T. Burgnich	493	44,218	493	6	0.01			0
23	Christian Panucci C. Panucci	489	41,377	464	40	0.08			0
24	Giuseppe Favalli G. Favalli	486	38,631	455	7	0.01			0
25	Alessandro Del Piero A. Del Piero	478	32,794	378	188	0.39	5	193	50